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The '''Ryaniverse''' is a fictional universe centered on Tom Clancy's characters [[Jack Ryan]], [[John Clark]], and the other characters associated with them in Clancy's series of popular novels.
The '''Ryaniverse''' is a fictional universe centered on Tom Clancy's characters [[Jack Ryan]], [[John Clark]], and the other characters associated with them in Clancy's series of popular novels.
''Debt of Honor'' and ''Executive Orders'' were written before the (eerily similar) real-world [[9-11|September 11th]] terrorist attacks. Clancy's own fictional national catastrophe had a [[Japan|Japanese]] airline pilot crash his own (passengerless) plane into the Capitol--during a Joint Session of Congress--at the end of Debt of Honor), with the effect of decapitating the U.S. government. The real attack appears in his latest novel, The Teeth of the Tiger, when a doctor helps the anti-terrorist team with a succinylcholine injector pen because "his brother was a trader on the 97th floor of tower 1".
''Debt of Honor'' and ''Executive Orders'' were written before the (eerily similar) real-world [[9-11|September 11th]] terrorist attacks. Clancy's own fictional national catastrophe had a [[Japan|Japanese]] airline pilot hijack his own (passengerless) plane and crash it into the Capitol--during a Joint Session of Congress--at the end of Debt of Honor), with the effect of decapitating the U.S. government. The real attack appears in his latest novel, The Teeth of the Tiger, when a doctor helps the anti-terrorist team with a succinylcholine injector pen because "his brother was a trader on the 97th floor of tower 1".
===By publication date===
===By publication date===
*: Clancy's first novel. Jack Ryan assists in the defection of a respected Soviet naval captain, along with the most advanced ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet fleet. The movie (1990) stars Alec Baldwin as Ryan and Sean Connery as Captain Ramius.
*: Clancy's first novel. Jack Ryan assists in the defection of a respected Soviet naval captain, along with the most advanced ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet fleet. The movie (1990) stars Alec Baldwin as Ryan and Sean Connery as Captain Ramius.
* ''Patriot Games'' (1987)
* ''Patriot Games'' (1987)
*: Ryan saves the (unnamed) Prince of Wales from an Irish Republican terrorist attack in London. The terrorists later go after Ryan and his family while the Prince is visiting them; the Prince helps Ryan round up the terrorists, who by this time have committed murder in Maryland, which has a death penalty. The 1992 movie stars Harrison Ford as Ryan, and has a fictional lord instead of the Prince of Wales. The bad guys are all killed off. (John Clark later tells Jack Ryan in ''Clear and Present Danger'' that he was on the helicopter that had to turn back when attacking the terrorist camps in northern Africa.)
*: Ryan saves the (unnamed) Prince of Wales from terrorists, who go after Ryan and his family; the Prince helps round up the terrorists, who by this time have committed murder in Maryland, which has a death penalty. The 1992 movie stars Harrison Ford as Ryan, and has a fictional lord instead of the Prince of Wales. The bad guys are all killed off. (John Clark later tells Jack Ryan in ''Clear and Present Danger'' that he was on the helicopter that had to turn back when attacking the terrorist camps in northern Africa.)
* ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'' (1988)
* ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'' (1988)
*: First appearance of John Clark and Sergey Golovko. Secret anti-missile lasers (Strategic Defense Initiative), high-stakes diplomacy, spies and computer geeks (Major Gregory is introduced here and shown later as updating [[Surface-to-air missile]] software in ''The Bear and the Dragon''). We see how spies pass secrets and how they are interrogated in the Lubyanka Prison: no torture, but clever use of sensory deprivation.
*: First appearance of John Clark and Sergey Golovko. Secret anti-satellite lasers (Strategic Defense Initiative), high-stakes diplomacy, spies and computer geeks (Major Gregory is introduced here and shown later as updating [[Surface-to-air missile]] software in ''The Bear and the Dragon''). We see how spies pass secrets and how they are interrogated in the Lubyanka Prison: no torture, but clever use of sensory deprivation.
* ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1989)
* ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1989)
* ''The Sum of All Fears'' (1991)
* ''The Sum of All Fears'' (1991)
*: [[Israel]] loses a nuclear weapon, which terrorists use to foment war between [[U.S.]] and [[Soviets]], which is averted by Ryan in a cliffhanger. Denver is destroyed. The terrorists are captured and demand an Islamic trial, which they get: they are beheaded with a sword in Saudi Arabia. The 2002 movie stars Ben Affleck as (a much too young) Jack Ryan, Liev Schreiber as Clark, and changes the identity and motivation of the terrorists beyond recognition, thus disrupting the timeline. This marks Clancy's first foray into nuclear physics and bomb design. The movie was intended as a "reboot" of the franchise, with Ryan a young analyst who is not yet married rather than a senior CIA official.
*: [[Israel]] loses a nuclear weapon, which terrorists use to foment war between [[U.S.]] and [[Soviets]], which is averted by Ryan in a cliffhanger. Denver is destroyed. The terrorists are captured and demand an Islamic trial, which they get: they are beheaded with a sword in Saudi Arabia. The 2002 movie stars Ben Affleck as (a much too young) Jack Ryan, Liev Schreiber as Clark, and changes the identity and motivation of the terrorists beyond recognition, thus disrupting the timeline. This marks Clancy's first foray into nuclear physics and bomb design.
* ''Without Remorse'' (1993; set in 1970)
* ''Without Remorse'' (1993; set in 1970)
* ''Rainbow Six'' (1998)
* ''Rainbow Six'' (1998)
*: Released to tie in with the computer game of the same name. John Clark leads an elite anti-terrorist unit and averts worldwide genocide attempt by terrorists who are motivated by radical [[environmentalism]] and use a modified Ebola virus as a weapon. (Jack Ryan is mentioned, but not by name due to a legal dispute with Clancy's estranged wife, and does not appear.) More virology.
*: Released to tie in with the computer game of the same name. John Clark leads an elite anti-terrorist unit and averts worldwide genocide attempt by terrorists who are motivated by radical [[environmentalism]] and use a modified Ebola virus as a weapon. (Jack Ryan is mentioned, but not by name, and does not appear.) More virology.
* ''The Bear and the Dragon'' (2000)
* ''The Bear and the Dragon'' (2000)